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Named after the bar in Hong Kong where most of these poems were first performed, Joyce is Not Here is Andrew Barker's first collection of Modern Sonnets. Among the cast of characters within we hear from the Sea Shepherd, the Worn-out Private Tutor, the Newsworthy Activist, the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, Rumpelstiltskin, Beatrice Carbone from A View from the Bridge, Tony Blair contemplating accusations of war crimes, and even an eight-year old Shakespeare, primed with ambition. In the beat and rhyme of the sixteenth century love song, Joyce is Not Here: 101 Modern Shakespearean Sonnets is a revolution, not in form, but in content. As the essay on poetry included in this collection says: "If you know how to use it, the sonnet form will do a lot of work for you." Upon these pages sonnets deal with such diverse matters as hearing of Gore Vidal's death, watching The Damned in a wine bar in Hong Kong, the dangers of Donald Trump being successfully ridiculed on Saturday Night Live, on first looking into Keats' poem On First Looking into Chapman's Homer in the room where Keats died, reactions to observing Kevin Spacey as Richard the Third, or Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski, or to Muhammad Ali defeating George Foreman in Kinshasa. Sonnets are written as dramatic monologues of characters from the television drama series Mad Men and The Wire, from the works of Homer, Neil Gaiman, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Charles Dickens and Dai Sijie, and as the poet himself, cautiously contemplating the world around him. Varied and moving, Joyce is Not Here shows us the remarkable scope of the modern-day sonnet, it is a celebration of what can be done with the sonnet now.
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Received an Advanced Reader Copy from a friend. I am an avid true crime reader and upon completion I question if the author is credible. The timeline does not add up for his age and the times of his alleged involvement in organized crime. Some of the things in the book he is alleged to have said and done I remember almost word for word from movies I had previously watched. He literally stole a scene from the movie the accountant with Ben Affleck and said that he did it. I did a little research after completing the book and learned that this author was also claiming in 2010 that he was a long time member of the Bloods Gang. That coupled with the above leads me to believe that it is nothing more than fantasy. Do not waste your time or money
Like it was written by George Santos
Received an Advanced Reader Copy from a friend. I am an avid true crime reader and upon completion I question if the author is credible. The timeline does not add up for his age and the times of his alleged involvement in organized crime. Some of the things in the book he is alleged to have said and done I remember almost word for word from movies I had previously watched. He literally stole a scene from the movie the accountant with Ben Affleck and said that he did it. I did a little research after completing the book and learned that this author was also claiming in 2010 that he was a long time member of the Bloods Gang. That coupled with the above leads me to believe that it is nothing more than fantasy. Do not waste your time or money
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I had hopes for this book but was not expecting what I would read within the pages. If your kink is deplorable grammar, incoherent sentences, and inconsistent messages, then this book is for you. At first, I thought the book I received was not the book I ordered. But as I dived in, it was very confusing. I would not recommend this book to anyone
There are not many reviews on the internet for this book. In researching the many stores selling the book, it was self-published which makes a lot of sense. The online description is written perfectly, so reading the actual book was very difficult. Pages two and three are written clearly as well as the table of contents. Pages 155 and 156 are also written logically.
It appears this book was written, then sent through a program like “Grammarly.” Once completed it seems it was published without being re-read or edited. The first clue was the title narrative that used “Has” instead of “As.” The table of contents is one page off from what it shows on pages four though seven. Many of the “q’s” are written as “[]”
Below are some examples of what was within the pages of this book written verbatim:
“Chains & Discipline/ Domination & entry/ Sadism & Masochism (BDSM) is a wide classification of bed room play.” Page 9
“When bringing up the topic of chains, you are actually asking a person to offer you their depend on, their flexibility, and also possibly their suggestion of security in exchange for sensual/sexual enjoyment, power-play, and also feasible re-evaluation of your very own connection.” Page 39
“Techni[]ue can take a selection of kinds and also be as easy or facility as you pick to (new paragraph) bargain for your details scenario” Page 52
“BDSM stands for chains as well as entry, technique and also supremacy as well as sadism and also masochism.” Page 125
“SHELF means Risk Aware Consensual Kink.” Page 130
“Approval is whatever.” Page 152
“your twist isn’t my twist, yet your twist is OKAY.” Page 153
“You can be a top, base, or button” Page 153
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